Active K9 Rescue Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455471007
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Park City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4359014349
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Animal Protection and Welfare
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,732
- Expenses
- $255,467
- Assets
- $637,697
- Liabilities
- $637,697
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Samantha Bednar (President/Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Carmie Bednar (Director/Secretary): $11,203 total reported compensation
- Jon Bednar (VP/Director): $11,203 total reported compensation
- Samantha Bednar (President/Director): $4,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rescuing, rehabilitating, & rehoming canines in need. Develop partnerships with local shelters, humane societies and other rescues to reduce canine rebound rates. Community canine education including service dog education & breed awareness. Blankets for children survivors of dog attacks & bite prevention education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing community canine education thur various seminars/workshops, including an annual Rattlesnake Avoidance workshop. Rescuing, rehabilitating, rehoming canines in need thru local shelters. Supporting local shelters with training and canine behavior assessments. Community canine training at all levels, both group and private. Breed awareness education to reduce the owner surrender rate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 30
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.5; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $11K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 21 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other liabilities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.